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Who is your third favorite Dolphin QB?

Who is your third favorite Dolphin QB???

  • Jay Fiedler

    Votes: 47 11.5%
  • David Woodley

    Votes: 46 11.3%
  • Don Strock

    Votes: 104 25.6%
  • Earl Morrall

    Votes: 58 14.3%
  • Scott Mitchell

    Votes: 16 3.9%
  • Damon Huard

    Votes: 18 4.4%
  • Bernie Kosar

    Votes: 45 11.1%
  • Craig Erickson

    Votes: 2 0.5%
  • Brian Griese

    Votes: 20 4.9%
  • John Stofa

    Votes: 3 0.7%
  • A. J. Feeley

    Votes: 27 6.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 21 5.2%

  • Total voters
    407
nyjunc said:
I know woodley wsn't great but he did bring you to a SB, I thought he'd be higher in a poll like this.
Well you gotta understand that Woodley was not complete without Strock. It's just a fact. Where Woodly failed, Strock would come in and excell and vice versa.
 
How 'bout Sage? I will forever remember him for the comeback vs. Buffalo in my 1st Miami home game.:D
 
Bumpus said:
How 'bout Sage? I will forever remember him for the comeback vs. Buffalo in my 1st Miami home game.:D
Well, in all fairness I thought the same thing, but we are talking about the BILLS here. If that was a healthy Culpepper in there, Chambers wouldn't have just broken the Dolphins single game recieving record but the way the BILLS were playing that second half, he would have busted the leauge single game recieving record.
 
TXFinFan said:
I'm very surprised more people aren't picking Earl Morrall. Seeing as how he single handedly saved the PERFECT season.

It's the Yoots. They weren't around to see what Earl did for the undefeated season.

As they say: "Yoot is folly."
 
Awsi Dooger said:
This franchise will be known for the '72 undefeated season, long after all of us are dead. There was no perfect season minus Earl Morrall.

We were on the verge of a devastating and embarrassing first-round playoff exit to Cleveland in '72 until Morrall hit Warfield with a long pass in the middle of the fourth quarter. Kiick scored the go-ahead and eventual winning TD a few plays later.

I would have Griese comfortably ahead of Marino. Not based on passing ability, obviously, but everything else like cadence, ball handling, scrambling, play calling and especially a team-oriented unselfish knowledge of how vital the running game was, especially in that era and given our strengths. Marino undoubtedly would have wanted to win it 30+ times even with Csonka, Morris and the interior O-line of Keuch, Little and Langer.

As much as I respect Marino and everything he gave us, I'll always wonder how this franchise would have evolved if he wasn't available in '83. Shula was still a relatively young coach, but after acquiring Marino all the critical attention-to-detail and blue-collar necessities faded into oblivion as he relied on Danny's right arm to bail us out.

It's laughable idiocy to herald Shula as adapting to Marino's strengths and smartly changing our style to fit. Yeah, we ran the ball 8 times in the '94 playoff loss at San Diego, despite leading the entire game and often by signifiant margin. That was coaching/quarterbacking incompetence and stupidity that may never be equaled. Even when Bradshaw and Swann/Stallworth were in their primes in the late '70s, Chuck Knoll still insisted on running the ball an average of 35+ times per game. Shula got away from that and his zero titles after '73 is a just reward.


:eek: I know it.
 
Finsperfect72 said:
I'm one of the 'old timers' that Crunch referred to. This is my 35th year as a Dolphins fan and I've seen a lot of QB's. I voted for Don Strock because he was so dependable. And of course he was there at the beginning for the best QB to ever put on pads. But I've gotta hand it to Earl Morrall, too. He quietly came in when Griese was injured and just did the job. Simple as that. In fact, about the only time I ever disagreed with a Shula decision was when Shula started Griese and not Morrall in the Super Bowl (if memory serves me correctly it was the Super Bowl and not the playoffs when Griese healed up). Morrall deserved that start but he took the demotion in stride and continued his quiet leadership.

Special nod to Bernie, though, the co-conspirator of the 'clock play!'


Hindsight is 20:20 but there was a reason for Shula's decision. Three years earlier Shula was faced with almost the exact situation. Earl Morrall, who was playing for the Colts at the time, had stepped in early in the season for an injuried Johnny U and led the Colts to a 13-1 season. Although Johnny U was healthy by the time of the superbowl, Shula then coach of the Colts decided to ride the hot hand and started Earl. Well the Colts lost to the Jets after Namath's famous guarantee. Shula was fired shortly thereafter so it kind of worked out for us but Don wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.
 
VManis said:
Hindsight is 20:20 but there was a reason for Shula's decision. Three years earlier Shula was faced with almost the exact situation. Earl Morrall, who was playing for the Colts at the time, had stepped in early in the season for an injuried Johnny U and led the Colts to a 13-1 season. Although Johnny U was healthy by the time of the superbowl, Shula then coach of the Colts decided to ride the hot hand and started Earl. Well the Colts lost to the Jets after Namath's famous guarantee. Shula was fired shortly thereafter so it kind of worked out for us but Don wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.

:shakeno: Shula wasn't fired by the Colts. Infact, his acquisition cost us a first round draft choice for so called "tampering".
 
Danny said:
Don Srock and then Morral.But I also like Crash Jensen who was drafted as a QB but actually played every other position instead of QB. I do remember him cathing a lateral then trowing it into the endzone for a DT.

Ozzy rules!!

Danny, no offense, but this is probably agreed with you 100%. You nailed it baby, right out of the park..
1. Strock
2. Morral
3. Crash

BTW: I am glad the original post calls out Dan and BOB Griese. I ran through the list of choices, saw Griese, and thought the kid was the old man, therefore I was trying to figure out who number 2 was behind Marino...Of course I was immediately re-directed to Daunte being in the mix....:goof:-----

Sorry, gotta stop putting Budweiser on my cornflakes...
 
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